Agha Shahid Ali (4 February 1949,
Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir - 8 December 2001
Amherst, Massachusetts) was a Kashmiri
poet. His collections include
A Walk Through the Yellow Pages,
The Half-Inch Himalayas,
A Nostalgist's Map of America,
The Country Without a Post Office,
Rooms Are Never Finished, the latter a finalist for the National Book Award in 2001.